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2012 Asian Five Nations

Field	Value
name	2012 Asian Five Nations
date	27 April – 26 May 2012
countries

champion	JPN
count	20
matches	10
top scorer	Japan Ayumu Goromaru (62)
most tries	Japan Yoshikazu Fujita (6)
website
preceded by	[2011](2011-asian-five-nations)
succeeded by	[2013](2013-asian-five-nations)

The 2012 Asian Five Nations, known as the 2012 HSBC Asian 5 Nations due to the tournament's sponsorship by the HSBC, was the 5th series of the Asian Five Nations rugby union tournament.

Japan secured their 5th Asian Five Nations title, 20th overall Asian title, winning all four of their games.

Changes from 2011

Sri Lanka has been replaced with South Korea, who earns promotion from Division 1.

Teams

The teams involved are:

Nation	Home stadium	City	Head coach
(26)	Hong Kong Football Club Stadium
Mong Kok Stadium	Hong Kong	WAL Dai Rees
(14)	Level-5 Stadium
Chichibunomiya Rugby Stadium	Fukuoka
Tokyo	AUS Eddie Jones	Toshiaki Hirose
(30)	Almaty Central Stadium
National University Stadium	Almaty	KAZ Valery Popov
(31)	Seongnam Stadium	Seoul	South Korea Seo Chun-Oh
(NR)	Jebel Ali Center of Excellence
The Sevens	Dubai	AUS Duncan Hall	UK Alistair Thompson

Final Table

Relegated to Division One

Rank	Nation	Games	Points	Bonus
points	Total
points	Played	Won	Lost	Drawn	For	Against	Diff
1		4	4	0	0	312	11	301	4	24
2		4	3	1	0	163	109	54	2	17
3		4	2	2	0	159	98	61	3	13
4		4	1	3	0	80	269	-189	1	6
5		4	0	4	0	48	275	-227	1	1

Points are awarded to the teams as follows:

	Results		Points
Win	5 points
Draw	3 points
4 or more tries	1 point
Loss within 7 points	1 point
Loss greater than 7 points	0 points

Fixtures

Maclay (3) McQueen (2) Robertson Kam Shing Hewson Jones Hussey McQueen Hood (2)

Ono 13' c Goromaru (2) 21' c, 49' c Onozawa (3) 33' c, 58' c, 64' c Semba 40' c Hatakeyama 41' c Fujii 60' m Sasaki 67' c Hirose 71' m Nagatomo 80' c

Noh-Woon Kim Won-Yong (1/1)

Fujita (6) 11' , 50' , 58' , 61' , 69' , 71' Goromaru (2) 18' , 21' Mochizuki 25' Semba 32' Kuwazuru (2) 46' , 74' H,Ono 55' Morikawa 65' Kizu 84' Tatekawa (4/5)

Makabe Mochizuki Hirose Sasaki (2)

References

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